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Victorian Forest Alliance

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Alliance of grassroots groups fighting for protection & restoration of native forests on stolen land.

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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
And counting... 🔥 Despite exceptionally dry conditions this autumn, FFMV are patting themselves on the back for having already lit over one hundred burns. This image is from the Dandenongs, getting smashed by both planned burns and loophole logging in the last weeks.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The VFA is an alliance of local groups dedicated to protecting Victoria's native forests from loophole logging, unscientific burning, and terrible policy. To continue doing this work, we need your support. 💰 chuffed.org/project/peop... Every dollar will go towards the fight for our forests.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our forests are under enormous and escalating pressure. Native forest logging may have “ended” on paper, but destructive practices and weakened protections are putting the forests we love at risk. Support the VFA to escalate our work this year: ➡ chuffed.org/project/peop...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#PlannedBurn smoke clouding over Wesburn yesterday.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@doctorsfortheenvironment: "DEA’s Dr Carolyn Orr, along with Carole Peters and David Lindenmayer speak to the detrimental health and environmental impacts of prescribed burns in this article for ‘The Post’." 🔗 Read the article online here (Page 7): issuu.com/postnews/doc...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What is a Green Fire-Wall? How can you implement this on your property? What does Fire-Wise garden design look like? Come along to our next webinar this Thursday! ➡ Register: victorianforestalliance.org.au/vfa_webinar_greenfirewalls
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"It's a good argument to have mature forests in landscapes, because they can act as a buffer," he said. "You can have regrowth burning very severely, and then it'll run into mature forest and it'll dampen down." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We're seeking reports on fire mis-management during Planned Burn season. 🔥 Send in your eye witness accounts and photos. Let's hold these folks accountable. ➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_repo...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#PlannedBurn carnage ⁨at Ewings Morass. Documented by Gippsland Community Fire Watch in 2017.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
PLANNED BURNS HAVE BEEN LIT ACROSS VICTORIA. 🔥 This massive list was published just a few days ago by FFMV, burns to be lit up in the next few days. You've probably noticed the smoke in your area. We must rethink the way we do fire management.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"Breaking free of linear time helps us to think about the world beyond “the human”. It leads us to wonder." ➡ theconversation.com/how-indigeno...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"Planned burns are beginning across Victoria, with some slated near Harcourt, which was ravaged by bushfires early this year." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
BECOME A FOREST CHAMPION 💪🌳💚 Sign up to the VFA's monthly giving program and help us advocate for Victoria's forests to be protected from poor management, logging loopholes, and weakened protections. 🦅 Here's the link you need: www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Join us in Yarram in the heart of the Strzelecki Ranges for the 4th Annual Strzelecki Koala Festival, a grassroots celebration of one of Victoria’s most significant koala populations and the forests they depend on.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
On Sunday 22 March, forests supporters will gather in Melbourne for the March for Forests — a powerful rally calling for real protection of native forests and an end to destructive practices. This is a moment to stand together for climate, biodiversity and the future of the forests we love.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The VFA is an alliance of more than 40 grassroots, volunteer-led groups who hail from every corner of Victoria. In the lead up to the state election, we want to escalate our crucial campaigning work. 🌳 Sign up as a FOREST CHAMPION via the 'donate' page of our website. 💚
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Whistling Kites photographed by Gayle Osbourne of Wombat Forestcare in the Trentham area, a rare sighting of this diurnal raptor for the region! More info in WF's most recent newsletter.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The VFA needs monthly donors. 💰 For our campaign work to escalate, we need a reliable source of income, so we can concentrate on protecting the forests we love. 🌳 At the moment, a generous donor has pledge to MATCH EVERY MONTHLY DONATION. ➡ victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Are you ready to join the nationwide MARCH FOR FORESTS? @bobbrownfoundation are hosting this mammoth event across the continent. VFA will have a stall at the Melbourne rally - come and say hey and chat with us about the threats our forests are facing. SEE YOU ON THE 22ND!
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
REPOST BEAM Mitchell Environment Group @wallanwallanrp: "Join the wallan wallan Regional Parkland Alliance to hear about a new parkland proposed for the Upper Merri" ➡wallanwallanrp.org.au ➡events.humanitix.com/introducing-the-wallan-wallan-regional-parkland-online-event
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This incredible article in The Monthly explores the culture of 'bush user' groups, and deep dives into what is happening on the ground in Victoria's forests. It is truly worth a read. www.themonthly.com.au/march-2026/e...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NO MINES IN THE WOMBAT FOREST! ❌⛏️ Wombat Forestcare members have found exploratory gold drilling equipment in the Wombat Forest this week. WF is asking residents to write to Jacinta Allen and Steve Dimopoulos, requesting the prompt creation of the promised regional parks and reserves.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
REPOST from @greatforestnp: "Join us on Wednesday 11th March from 6pm at Patagonia Naarm/Melbourne Store for the launch of Tales & Trails - a night of singletrack and stoke, to protect the Great Forest."
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Or, we can increase our demands for a safer, more sustainable future for all, and all work even harder together to achieve this." www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/01/a-scorching-summer-has-left-australian-wildlife-on-the-brink-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The opening lines of the VFA submission to the forest fire management consultation process that's open now. Head to our website to read the submission and craft your own - they close on the 20th. www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
March in March for Forests! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 @bobbrownfoundation "📣 On 22 March, rise up with thousands of people around the country to call for an end to native forest logging. RSVP or sign up to volunteer — marchforforests.org #MarchForForests #EndNativeForestLogging"
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"If this hot weather is not for you, join us tomorrow to think cool, green thoughts! We have two incredible forests experts lined up to tell us all about the complex and critically important role of forests for planetary health! 🌳🌿🍃" lighterfootprints.org/why-forests-...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Agencies globally are employing new bushfire detection and suppression technologies to locate and extinguish fires when they start. 🔥 Let's invest in technology that actually works. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2026/02/14/the-case-date-bushfire-detection-and-suppression
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"In Australian studies, “fuel load was found to have no effect on rate of spread, and only a very minor effect on flame heights”." ➡www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2026/02/14/the-case-date-bushfire-detection-and-suppression
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
IMPORTANT: Public consultation is open right now for DEECA’s strategic assessment under the EPBC Act for planned bushfire management works. 🔥🔥🔥 We've made a submission, and we want you to make one too! 🔥 www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"One of the reasons that the Wombat-Lerderderg National Park was created was to protect these beautiful Greater Gliders." Check out the Wombat Forestcare page for the video of FFMV destruction in the recently legislated park just last week.
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Only two days left to make a submission to the FSC, or sign on to Gippsland Forest Guardians' submission. Let's make sure these biodiverse areas don't get turned into pine monocrops! More info here: www.gippslandforestguardians.org.au/10_1_petition
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Come along to the March in March for Forests - on March 22nd at Parliament Gardens. See you there! @bobbrownfoundation
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Evidence-based ecological management is essential in forests and we must aim to avoid risky management, such as the use of widespread mechanical thinning in these forests." theconversation.com/victorias-mo...
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Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action @bushfiresurvivors.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In 2016, Fiona was imagining a hopeful future for her newborn baby. 3 years later, her daughter's first bedroom, along with everything they owned was incinerated in the climate-fuelled bushfires of 2019/20. Survivors like Fiona are why we can’t afford delay any longer. #BushfireSurvivors
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"As climate change brings warmer temperatures, we expect Mesophellia may increasingly act as an important food source for long-footed potoroos when other resources are scarce." theconversation.com/potoroos-dig...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“The impact of bushfires on wildlife can be catastrophic. Native animals are often unable to escape fires and are highly vulnerable...” ➡https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/30/victoria-bushfires-threatened-species-australia?
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/01/2026
“The Albanese government promised a once-in-a-generation fix to Australia’s broken environment laws. Instead, the draft National Environmental Standards put up for public comment over summer look worryingly familiar,” writes Louise Morris. Read the full piece on The Point: theaus.in/4rlvsJ0
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We don't think so. 🔥🔥 Right now, there's a consultation happening which could result in FFMV's activities becoming exempt from regulation under the federal environment act: the EPBC. It is so crucial that this is stopped. 🔥 Make a submission: consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-tor-st...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“What customers are paying for at the checkout could be timber made of greater glider or swift parrot habitat, which could even be illegally logged.” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/27/bunnings-accused-of-greenwashing-timber-amid-concerns-about-suppliers-logging
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Forest Stewardship Council are attempting to change the fine print in some of their policy, and Gippsland Forest Guardians have written a brilliant joint submission against these changes. You can sign on to the submission via the link: www.gippslandforestguardians.org.au/10_1_petition
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@foemelbourne is excited to share that we are organising a second Snow Gum Summit, which will take place in March 2026 on Ngarigo Country in Jindabyne. www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Great independent article talking through the intricacies of appropriate responses to fires. @kinglakeforest.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/bushfires-th...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
VFA supporters are encouraged to stand in solidarity with First Nations peoples on January 26 by attending local Invasion/Survival Day rallies. Events are being organised across the continent to honour survival, resistance and the call for truth and justice. Image via ANTAR
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Australia’s native birds and wildlife are being poisoned by SGARs, a dangerous class of chemicals which are readily available in supermarkets and online. BirdLife Australia is calling for SGARs to be removed from public sale. Make a Submission: ➡ birdlife.org.au/protect-auss...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Words from Phil Zystra on controlling the forests, in the wake of new discussions around the validity of planned burn regimes. www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Wardell-Johnson, Zylstra and Lindenmayer argue burning forests actually increases their flammability for many years, by stimulating fresh undergrowth, thinning the mid-story of growth (which allows fires to pass through more quickly), and drying the forest."" www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Within every tree species examined... bark microbes consistently removed hydrogen from the air. In other words, trees could be a major, previously unrecognised, global natural system for drawing down hydrogen out of the atmosphere." theconversation.com/we-discovere...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@lighterfootprints_: "Join us to hear ecosystems expert Virginia Young talk about the importance of biodiversity and forest integrity to emissions reduction and climate action." lighterfootprints.org/why-forests-...
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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Follow the ABC's great live blog for up-to-date reporting on the bushfire emergency. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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